Letter: Honest bomber

Saturday 15 November 1997 00:02 GMT

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Sir: Why is Taki being credited with the insight that Guy Fawkes was "the only person ever to have entered Parliament with sincere convictions" (Quote Unquote, 8 November)? I first encountered this idea on a poster some 30 years ago, although then it was Fawkes's "honest intentions" which were being lauded. The poster was usually displayed alongside another which said, "Whoever you voted for, the Government got in". The truth of this seems increasingly clear day by day.

WILLIAM SCOTT

Semington, Wiltshire

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